Woman Caught Stealing Video Games After Selling Them Back To Store She Stole Them From

Stealing is wrong. That’s pretty much universally understood. But going back to the store you just stole from, to sell them the goods you took? Well, that takes a certain kind of chutzpah. And it also gets you caught.

Police in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, report that a woman went into a video game store (called, appropriately, The Video Game Store) on Tuesday and stole several Nintendo DS games. At the actual time of the theft, she was not caught and store employees apparently did not notice the missing merchandise.

However, the 29-year-old woman returned to the store later that same afternoon and sold the games back to the shop (for a total of $US34), at which point employees realised she looked familiar and went back to scan earlier security tapes. On reviewing the tapes, they discovered the theft and notified the police, who later arrested the woman.

She had provided clerks with another person’s state ID card when selling the games back to the store, and so in addition to charges of retail theft, she now faces charges of forgery and theft by deception.

after watching some American show about crack addicts I've actually heard of a similar technique to this being popular among druggies. They go through a bin located outside the store looking for receipts, once they find one they go inside the store and steal the item that is on the receipt, they then return to the store with the item and receipt asking for a cash refund.